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Macron is powerless against his enemies

16 December 2024

5:00 PM

16 December 2024

5:00 PM

So farewell Michel Barnier, the man who will now be best remembered not as the suave face of the EU in the Brexit negotiations, but as the most hapless prime minister in the history of the Fifth Republic. That is assuming his successor, Francois Bayrou, isn’t ousted in under three months.

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